Hello TekSyndicate Friends,
I was influenced by the bandwagon and bought a subscription to Private Internet Access, the so called "Amazing VPN". I was quickly impressed by the increase of speed. Normally, I would struggle loading a 1080P YouTube video, and now they load before I get a chance to click full screen.
Before VPN: http://postimg.org/image/9e41x6hst/
After VPN: http://postimg.org/image/i6wlo2x3r/
As you can see, not only is my location spoofed, but my speed is tripled. There is a small problem though.
I tried to download a torrent, ThePirateBay AFK. I thought that this would be an interesting documentary to watch considering the huge debate over the net neutrality act. Well, even though my download speed is increased, and even browser downloads are wicked fast, this torrent refuses to go faster than 15KBP/s. I tried without the VPN, and I got 2.5MBP/s. What's the deal here? I have not tried to download any other .torrent files, but I am certain it is the VPN itself.
Please consider the fact that I am only fourteen so I can't be purchasing any other software to better my experience. If I can't solve this issue, then I won't be too worried about it, but I would prefer to have this fixed.
All the best,
-Kai
Keep your eye on the press!
Didn't you see the news that PIA has decided to betray its customers by transferring private information on them to all kinds of US corporations and corporate DRM enforcement organizations?
They had some kind of secret agreement after the customers were not able to access Hulu and other services. It's not really clear what customer data exactly PIA is sharing, but probably pretty much everything, so stay away from torrents when using PIA! Even linux distro torrent downloads are probably throttled, so P2P torrent based private cloud arrangements and other legal and practical torrent-applications will be throttled also. It goes to say that not everything on torrent sites like Pirate Bay is legal, so maybe stay away from sites like that all the same.
You can also speed up your browsing enormously by just optimizing Firefox/Waterfox settings and by using open source software that doesn't do things with your connection behind your back. That's a lot cheaper than using non-enterprise-orientated commercial VPN services. E.g.: you can blacklist the caching servers that are throttled for certain content, use ad blockers, script blockers and anti-tracking plug-ins, and stop using MS-Windows and Adobe Flash, which will immediately speed up 1080p video playback on YouTube and similar sites. Html5 videos are not treated like Flash videos. You can't however successfully use html5 without strict ad blocking, as Google for instance blocks access to videos through html5 if they normally have ads on that video.
I had exactly the opposite happen, my speeds were reduced to 20% of previous (over 50 mbps to under 10 mbps)